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If Germany’s current-account surpluses, currently running at 9% of GDP, were universalized, with every member state’s government, private sector, and households net savers, the euro would shoot through the roof, destroying most of Europe’s manufacturing.

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We've never had such gargantuan surpluses before.

In many ways, this is a great success story of human civilization, of the agricultural surpluses that we set out to achieve 12,000 years ago.

Wright points out that in certain circumstances, cooperation or non-violence can benefit both parties in an interaction, such as gains in trade when two parties trade their surpluses and both come out ahead, or when two parties lay down their arms and split the so-called peace dividend that results in them not having to fight the whole time.

And with the food surpluses that these techniques produced, it was no longer necessary for everyone to farm.

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